Human Service Resources
New Hampshire 2-1-1 www.211nh.org
- Searchable database of area services
Service Link – 866-634-9412 www.servicelinknh.gov
- Aging and disability resource center
DHHS – www.nheasy.nh.gov 1-800-982-1001 OR 542-9544
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps)
- Medicaid
- Child Care
- Aide to Permanently and Totally Disabled
- Emergency Assistance for Housing (EA) (MUST be eligible for or already getting Temporary Aide to Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance.) Help with rent or utility security deposits, fuel deliveries, back rent, mortgage or utilities.
Food – other than SNAP/Food Stamps
Southwestern Community Services 1-800-529-0005/542-9528
- Women Infants & Children
- NH Commodity Supplemental Food Program
Meals on Wheels (for Elderly and disabled) 863-3177
Sunapee Food Pantry at the Sunapee Town Office – Dry Goods & Personal Care Items.
Telephone
Assurance Wireless/Safelink/Consumer Cellular can save $40+/month
Electric, Heat Assistance & Weatherization
Southwestern Community Services 1-800-529-0005/542-9528
- Also may offer no/low interest rate loans to prevent homelessness – AND –
- Security deposit assistance for housing.
Social Security - www.ssa.gov or 888-397-9798
- Social Security, Medicare, Supplemental Security and Social Security Disability
Housing Programs
- NH Housing Finance Authority 1-800-439-7247
- Claremont Housing Authority 542-6411
- Southwestern Community Services 1-800-529-0005/542-9528
May offer no/low interest rate loans to prevent homelessness – AND – offer security deposit assistance for housing.
- Claremont Homeless Shelter 719-4243 or 1-800-852-3388
- Families in Transition 641-9441 (Currently offering housing in Concord, Dover, Manchester and Wolfeboro).
- Family Promise 603-856-8490 Case Management and Temporary Housing (not emergency shelter) 176 Loudon Rd, Concord and with rotating Volunteer Hosts.
- Upper Valley Haven 1-802-295-6500 Homeless Shelter & Case Management 713 Hartford Ave, White River Jct., VT
Employment
- NH Department of Employment Security 543-3111 www.nhworks.org
Free Training/Assistance Programs
- NH Workforce Investment Act (WIA) 543-3111 xt 93214
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock CNA/LNA/Medical Assistant/Pharmacy Technician www.vthitec.org
- Vocational Rehab/River Valley Project SEARCH at DHMC for young adults 19-25 who have a disability and would like to learn marketable skills to get and keep employment. 650-6439 www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/about_dh/project_search.html